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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0886m. Funerary inscription

Description: Fragmentary stele of brown limestone (w: 0.25 x h: 0.55 x d: 0.25)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Very irregular0.02-0.05.

Date: Fourth-early fifth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Wādī Sawfajjīn: Middle Lower Sofeggin Basin: Bir ed-Dreder: Surveyed in situ, in the Libyan cemetery, by Goodchild in 1949.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle

Interpretive

[---] C
AHALKUILUISU
D byn Adonib-
al SAIYN AAMR
5MYSM[..] LUM

Diplomatic

[---]C
AHALKUILUISU
DBYNADONIB
ALSAIYNAAMR
5MYSM[··]LUM

English translation

Translation source: Elmayer, 1997

Stele of hospitality (or: memorial stele) for Isudryn Adombal Salyn, soul (or: monument) of a deceased (years?) . . . lived..

English translation

Translation source:

. . . ] son of Adonibal [ . . .

Bibliography: Goodchild, 1954 8, without a transcription, and pl. 15 (25), whence Elmayer, 1997, 39; this edition Kerr, 2010, 178 (where see bibliography).

Images

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